Set in a rural Japanese village, this gritty, taboo-driven novel follows Red, a crude and horny city-bred boy, as he visits an elderly couple to help them with the farm for a week. His grandfather, Hiroshi—a slightly deaf, short-sighted, and

Set in a rural Japanese village, this gritty, taboo-driven novel follows Red, a crude and horny city-bred boy, as he visits an elderly couple to help them with the farm for a week. His grandfather, Hiroshi—a slightly deaf, short-sighted, and

Overview: Set in a rural Japanese village, this gritty, taboo-driven novel follows Red, a crude and horny city-bred boy, as he visits an elderly couple to help them with the farm for a week. His grandfather, Hiroshi—a slightly deaf, short-sighted,